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VMware's New Graphics Architecture Is Shaping Up

Phoronix: VMware's New Graphics Architecture Is Shaping Up

VMware's overhauled Linux graphics driver stack is shaping up and coming together nicely in time for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which will allow for 2D/3D guest acceleration within virtualized guest machines...

A quick test of xonotic and openarena showed good performance, but the mouse didn't behave well ingame. (Maybe better with mouse.vusb.enable = "TRUE"?)
Warcraft 3 in wine is a bit jerky, but works.

So we are actually getting to the point where gaming in VMs works... But of course we would have it rather the other way around: Gaming in a windows vm on linux instead of gaming in a linux vm on windows.

Glad to see you are having some fun ChrisXY. I work on the support team for desktop products at VMware and just started playing around with the driver as well. openSUSE 12.1 works well for anyone that wants to try it, you will get the GNOME 3 experience. I made a post on the VMware communities in the workstation section on what needs to be done.

Unigine Heaven has a problem natively on radeon for me too. Maybe it's a mesa problem? I will soon test with optimizations on -O1 because I had a problem with lib32 mesa that wine only works with -O1 and not with -O2 since llvm 3.0.

I will also try the mouse settings, but probably I'll wait for the weekend because I only boot windows on weekends for playing and prefer working with my full RAM during the week.
I may mention again that I "only" use the VMWare player, so not even the commercial product.

in the vmx file do not help with the mouse in games that "warp" the mouse, at least in openarena, and at least not in the vmware player. I don't have workstation to test the optimize for games settings but maybe I will try that sometime..